For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.