I would stand upon facts.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

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.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.