Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.