New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.