Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.