“If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”

“Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.”

“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”

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

“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”

“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.”