What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.