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

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.