In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

The world laughs in flowers.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.