From the Book - 1st pbk ed.
"He was the Favorite by all odds; the best Loved Man in Sumter That Day"
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
"I Shall have the boy in the Ministry yet"
" If you wish true, unalloyed, genuine delight, fall in love with some amiable girl"
"It was a fearful thing to pull up a New England Oak by the roots at a ripened age and transplant it to the soil of the west"
"Humph! Pretty Business! Son of Lyman Beecher, President of a theological Seminary, in this miserable hole"
"A peculiar Minister was needed for so peculiar a Church"
"Courage Today or carnage tomorrow"
"Give me war redder than Blood and Fiercer than fire"
"My heart is with the radicals, but my emotions are with the Orthodox"
"I am reliably assured that Beecher preaches to seven or eight mistresses every Sunday night"
"It is the letters- the letters, Only the letters"
"What a pity, that so insignificant a matter as the chastity or unchastity of an Elizabeth Tilton could clip the locks of this Samson".
