It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.