The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.