Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.