Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

True invective requires great imagination.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.