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

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

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

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

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.