“Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe.”

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.