Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.