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.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.