Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.