Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

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.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.