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.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

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

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

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