I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.