The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Character is very much a matter of health.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.
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.