When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.