“To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.”

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.

If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.

We strive for greatness.

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.