The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.

My wish is to be known only thru my work.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.