Politics make strange bedfellows.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.