“A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.”

“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ”

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

“Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.”

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”