It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. -Sir Philip Sidney.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.