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

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

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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