If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.