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

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.