Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.