Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

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.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.