God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.