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.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.