If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.