No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!