It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

My first year [as a choir member] was a really great experience. The professor is great, the people are great and it's a really friendly atmosphere.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!