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

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.