A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

We must be our own before we can be another's.