John James IngallsThinkers

Death is a democracy in which all men at last are equal and where there is neither rank nor station nor prerogative.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. It is immortal. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of the cannon, grow green again with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

Pennsylvania is a state that has produced but two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.