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

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have 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.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.