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

“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.”

“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”

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

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”

“If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”

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