Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.