We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.