Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

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.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.