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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.