Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.