Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

You never know what you can do till you try.