We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.