Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.