Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

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

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.