Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.