The beginning is the promise of the end.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?