God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.