“Lord, preserve our pastor, which is sailin’ on the ragin’ sea.”—Elder at Franklin.
“The best preparation for a good death is a good life.”—Rev. Thomas Carroll.
“Let me pipe the oil and I don’t care who drills the wells.”—Henry Harley.
“One well in the sand beats a hundred geological guesses.”—Wesley S. Guffey.
“Oil is the sap that keeps the tree of commerce in bloom.”—Marcus Hulings.
“Producers and oil-wells should have plenty of sand.”—Frederic Prentice.
“He hasn’t half the backbone of a printer’s towel.”—M. N. Allen.
“His ideas have the vigor of a mule’s hind legs.”—Robert L. Cochran.
“Damn a man who won’t stand up for a square deal.”—Robert B. Allen.
“He’s too big a mullet-head to say damn.”—John A. Steele.