Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.