There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.