A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!

A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.

Business is more exciting than any game.