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.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.