Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Trees are your best antiques.

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

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Books are a finer world within the world.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in another, and the delight in the recognition.

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

An old novel has a history of its own.

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

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.