It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

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.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.