God will pardon me. It is His trade.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...