Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

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

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

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

It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

I like the noise of democracy.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?