An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.