Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.