Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

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.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.