Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.