It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.