Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.