The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

There is no humor in heaven.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.