Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.