How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one