Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

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

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.