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.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

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

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.