No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Justice satisfies everybody.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

there is no reasoning with imagination.