A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Tortured for the Republic.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

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.