If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.