History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.