The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

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

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.