Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.