There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

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!

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.