“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..”

“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.”

“Good men have the fewest fears.”

“it is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”