Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.