We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Everything human is pathetic

A better idea than my own is to listen.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.