There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

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

Now comes the mystery.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.