Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.