I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.