Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.