Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldiers occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. – Rutherford B. Hayes

Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrushs eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. – Henry Ward Beecher