Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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.
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.