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.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.