We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.