True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.