No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

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

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

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.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.