Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.