The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Example has far more followers than reason.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

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.