No, there is no world-wide standard for the determination of provincialism. There is only one standard by which to judge men and women, and that standard is not so much one of brains and education as it is of culture and heart. Kindness seems to be the one golden metewand by which to measure how really civilized and catholic one may be.

Money will accomplish much in business, love and war but it isn't worth a cent in nature. You could plant all the doubloons lost in the Spanish Main on a New E…

There was not one of my blood, in or out of the Union Army who was not either serving and sacrificing at home or suffering and dying among the hills and valley…

The labor unions of Indiana proceeded to meet and resolve. They resolved in such violent and vicious language that no partisan press could be found willing to …

In private, you got what you got in public. He treated everyone the same. He was just a very warm man, and he worked hard to impress upon his children the valu…

I have known a great number of men.... I have known none who seemed more the whole man, none more finished a civilized product in all a man should be - in mode…

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?