Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.