Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.