Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

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.