The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.