"Too much rest is rust."

"The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."

"The will to do, the soul to dare."

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

"To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."

"I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree."

"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth."

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."