There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Nobody deserves to be helped who don't try to help himself, and "faith without works" is a risky doctrine.
- "Important Correspondence," The Californian, May 6, 1865