Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

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.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.