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

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

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

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.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.