What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.