There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

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.