To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.