This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.