I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
Earth endures; Stars abide.
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.