I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.