Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons