To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.