Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.