If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.