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.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

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

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.