We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.