It would never occur to most of us that ‘plants’ say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.