Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Fate loves the fearless.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.