Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?