Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

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

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

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

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.