Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

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.