All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.