A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.