1. “To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.”
2. “It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”
3. “Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.”
4. “Winter is the night of vegetation.”
5. “Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.”
6. “A book should be luminous not voluminous.”
7. “Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.”
8. “The heart contracts as the pocket expands.”
9. “Th smaller courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”
10. “Example has far more followers than wisdom.”
11. “Hope is the best part of our riches.”
12. “Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.”
13. “Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
14. “We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
15. “Heaven lent you a soul, earth will lend a grave.”
16. “Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.”
17. “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
18. “The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
19. “We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
20. “The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.”
21. “Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.”
22. “Discretion is he salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.”
23. “When all else is lost, the future still remains.”
24. “Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
25. “The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”
26. “The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.”
27. “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities”
28. “We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.”
29. “It is the Life of democracy to favour equality.”
30. “Few minds wear out; more rust out.”
