"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones."

"The greatest of evils is to be guilty of none."

"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."