God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.