Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary