When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.