One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.