When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

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.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.