“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.”

“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.”

“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”