If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

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

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.