You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint

The want of money is the root of all evil

The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's