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.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.