Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.