The sea complains upon a thousand shores..

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road..

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October..

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor..

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness..

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I ca….

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasur….

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it..

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip ….

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity..

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in th….

Trees are your best antiques.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word..

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once..

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well..

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rai….

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me..

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening..

Christmas is the day that holds all time together..

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman..

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red….