My soul is not a palace of the past.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.