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

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

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.

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