A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.