The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.