Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

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

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!