The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

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.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.