Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.