"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

"I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations."

"Moonlight is sculpture."

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."