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

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

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

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.