Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

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

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

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.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.