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.
From Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Trees are your best antiques.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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