Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

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.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.