To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.