In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.