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.

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

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

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!