A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.