Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.