A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.