The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.