How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.