It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.