With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

History is the devil's scripture.

Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, middle of the road, and the back of the church.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,

In every parting there is an image of death.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.