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

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.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.