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!

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.