No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Trees indeed have hearts.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.