Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.