Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

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

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.