“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver
“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.