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.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.