"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."

"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully."

"No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens."

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative鈥攖o know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."

"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."

"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution."

"Go, and do thou likewise."

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."