To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.