As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.