The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.