It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.