Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.