Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Oh give us the man who sings at his work.
A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight...
Reform is not pleasant but grievous no person can reform themselves without...
Every noble work is at first impossible.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by...
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth is there a more horrid kind of...
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Silence is as deep as eternity speech a shallow as time.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have...
This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful...
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the...
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings...
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being...
To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but...
Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about...
