“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.”

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.