If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Love is the river of life in this world.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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