I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

The freedom of poetic license.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.