The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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.