Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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.