The New Year Begins In A Snow-storm

Anger Is An Expensive Luxury In Which Only Men Of Certain Income Can Indulge.

Every Great Crisis Of Human History Is A Pass Of Thermopylae, And There Is Always A Leonidas And His Three Hundred To Die In It, If They Can Not Conquer.

Patriotism Is The Vital Condition Of National Permanence.

The Sure Foundations Of The State Are Laid In Knowledge, Not In Ignorance; And Every Sneer At Education, At Culture, At Book Learning, Which Is The Recorded Wisdom Of The Experience Of Mankind, Is The Demagogue's Sneer At Intelligent Liberty, Inviting National Degeneracy And Ruin.

Heroes In History Seem To Us Poetic Because They Are There. But If We Should Tell The Simple Truth Of Some Of Our Neighbors, It Would Sound Like Poetry.