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

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.