The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

I love you. I know what a body suffers, but I cannot forget my lessons.

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.