A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.