This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.