It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

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.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

Trees are your best antiques