Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.