I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Idleness induces caprice.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?