The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.