O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.