The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Song is the heroics of speech.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.