Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Taste is the next gift to genius.