Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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.

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.