Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.