He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

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.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!