Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

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

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

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

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

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.