“Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.”
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
“But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love.”
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”
“Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”