There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.