I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.