There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.