It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.