A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
The beginning is the promise of the end.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.