The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.