He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.