The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.