He has described our Yankee folk with as clever humour as Bret Harte delineated Rocky Mountain life.

Like Harte, Mr.Foss had no unkindness in his make-up.

He told me that he never had received an anonymous letter in his life.
Our American nation is wonderful in science and mechanical invention.

It was the aim of Sam Walter Foss to immortalize the age of steel.

"Harness all your rivers above the cataracts' brink, and then unharness man." He told me he thought the subject of mechanics was as poetical as the song of the lark.
"The Cosmos wrought for a billion years to make glad for a day," reminds us of the most resonant periods of Tennyson.
"The House by the Side of the Road," is from a text of Homer.
"The Lunkhead" shows Foss in his happiest mood: gently satirizing the foibles and harmless, foolish fancies of his fellow-men.