My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.