Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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.