It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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.