It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

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. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

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