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.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

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.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

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

Faith is spiritualized imagination.