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.

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.

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.