Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.