Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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

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

Character is very much a matter of health.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.