Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.