The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.