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

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

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.