Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.