“My dear pastor, in my tent last night, after a fatiguing day's service, I remembered that I failed to send a contribution for our colored Sunday school. Enclosed you will find a check for that object, which please acknowledge at your earliest convenience and oblige yours faithfully.”
Letter to his pastor after the First Battle of Bull Run (22 July 1861); as quoted in The Religious Development of the Negro in Virginia (1914) by Joseph Brummell Earnest, p. 84
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Always invest in businesses of the future and in talent

My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Context: This gentlemen hated to contribute a cent to the support of a “materialistic demon.” When I saw that statement I will tell you what I did. I knew the man’s conscience must be writhing in his bosom to think that he had contributed a dollar toward my support, toward the support of a “materialistic demon.” I wrote him a letter and I said: “My Dear Sir: In order to relieve your conscience of the crime of having contributed to the support of an unbeliever in ghosts, I hereby enclose the amount you paid to attend my lecture.” I then gave him a little good advice. I advised him to be charitable, to be kind, and regretted exceedingly that any man could listen to one of my talks for an hour and a half and not go away satisfied that all men had the same right to think. This man denied having received the money, but it was traced to him through a blot on the envelope.

“You look rarther rash my dear your colors dont quite match your face.”
Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=bfwsAAAAIAAJ&q=%22You+look+rarther+rash+my+dear+your+colors+dont+quite+match+your+face%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage
The Young Visiters (1919)
"The Night," l. 25.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: Dear Night! this world's defeat;
The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb;
The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat
Which none disturb!
Christ's progress, and His prayer-time;
The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.

letter to the German rulers (1524), as quoted in The History of Compulsory Education in New England, John William Perrin, 1896
“I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife.”
Jesus Camp http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/01/at_five_i_got_s_1.php, retrieve January 12, 2007.

Raising Godly Children in an Ungodly World: Leaving a Lasting Legacy (2008)