My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. 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, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.