“A birthday: and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife. A thoughtful day from dawn to close: the middle day of human life
“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks
“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day