Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito
Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better