A good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman.
- "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion"

God takes care of all of Jo Twichell's riff-raff; it was a commercial mistake when I sold out my pew there. People of other affiliations have to work and pay to get into Heaven, but Twichell can glide his in on a pass. You ought to know Twichell.
- letter to Henry H. Rogers, 16 April 1897