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.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.