Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

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

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.

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.

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

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.