At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.