To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

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

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.