The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.