A Tree Which Has Lost Its Head

A Man's Country Is Not A Certain Area Of Land, Of Mountains, Rivers, And Woods, But It Is A Principle: And Patriotism Is Loyalty To That Principle. In Poetic Minds And In Popular Enthusiasm This Feeling Becomes Closely Associated With The Soil And The Symbols Of The Country. But The Secret Sanctification Of The Soil And The Symbol Is The Idea Which They Represent, And This Idea The Patriot Worships Through The Name And The Symbol, As A Lover Kisses With Rapture The Glove Of His Mistress And Wears A Lock Of Her Hair Upon His Heart.

Books Are The Ever Burning Lamps Of Accumulated Wisdom.

A Journal Should Be Neither An Echo Nor A Pander.

Anger, Even When It Punishes The Faults Of Delinquents, Ought Not To Precede Reason As Its Mistress, But Attend As A Handmaid At The Back Of Reason, To Come To The Front When Bidden. For Once It Begins To Take Control Of The Mind, It Calls Just What It Does Cruelly.

Dreams Come True If You Survive The Hard Times!