Henry Watterson: “Joseph Jefferson came to his artistic spurs slowly but surely, being nearly thirty years of age when he got his chance…”

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.

But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.

Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.