Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!