To The Great Tree-loving Fraternity We Belong.

Very Few Men Acquire Wealth In Such A Manner As To Receive Pleasure From It.

It Takes Longer For Man To Find Out Man Than Any Other Creature That Is Made.

Many Men Are Mere Warehouses Full Of Merchandise--the Head, The Heart, Are Stuffed With Goods. . . . There Are Apartments In Their Souls Which Were Once Tenanted By Taste, And Love, And Joy, And Worship, But They Are All Deserted Now, And The Rooms Are Filled With Earthy And Material Things.

To Become An Able And Successful Man In Any Profession, Three Things Are Necessary, Nature, Study And Practice.

Men Are Not Put Into This World To Be Everlastingly Played On By The Harping Fingers Of Joy.