We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology-- A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little pole-hills The faculties throw up like mole hills.

Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us, Here's a health to all those that love them that love those That love them that love those that love us.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

The Creed sets forth what Christ suffered in the sight of men, and then appositely speaks of that invisible and incomprehensible judgment which he underwent in the sight of God in order that we might know not only that Christ's body was given as the price of our redemption, but that he paid a greater and more excellent price in suffering in his soul the terrible torments of a condemned and forsaken man.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.