The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only 'hooking,' while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple steali…

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make th…

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

I don't believe the answer for us is to invoke the Lord's name 55 times in a speech. It looks political.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.