One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.