No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

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.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

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