The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.