Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.