Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

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