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.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.