He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

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