“Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceiveOf sunshine and wide air and winged things,By sympathy of nature, so do I”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

“Not what we give,But what we share,For the giftwithout the giverIs bare.”

“AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays;Whether we look, or whether we listen,We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”

“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”

“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”

“The surest plan to make a ManIs, think him so.”