To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.