Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.