Getting it done is my reward.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Great hopes make everything great possible

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.