Definite speech means clarity of mind.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.