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.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.