In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.