It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

The surest poison is time.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.