No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

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.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.