"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Win one for the Gipper.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.

The people who holler "All power to the people!" want power to be handed to the people who holler "All power to the people!".

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

The Ass and His Driver AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. While he was in the act of throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail, endeavoring to pull him back. When the Ass persisted in his effort, the man let him go and said, Conquer, but conquer to your cost. A willful beast must go his own way.

Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.