It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.