Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.