Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.