The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Nature tells every secret once.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.