Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

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

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics