He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.