If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.