I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
The living grave of crime.
Knowledge isBought only with a weary care,
And wisdom means a world of pain.
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truththe cowards!
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" 
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California 
I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. 
Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell! 
All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away. 
The biggest dog has been a pup. 
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. 