The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
An empire is an immense egotism.
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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.