The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.