To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.