A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

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.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.