Who Loves A Garden Still

My Favorite Books Have A Personality And Complexion As Distinctly Drawn As If The Author's Portrait Were Framed Into The Paragraphs And Smiled Upon Me As I Read His Illustrated Pages.

Conversation Is An Abandonment To Ideas, A Surrender To Persons.

A Happy Childhood Is The Pledge Of A Ripe Manhood.

An Age Deficient In Idealism Has Ever Been One Of Immorality And Superficial Attainment, Since Without The Sense Of Ideas, Nobility Of Character Becomes Of Rare Attainment, If Possible.

Sympathy Wanting, All Is Wanting; Its Personal Magnetism Is The Conductor Of The Sacred Spark That Lights Our Atoms, Puts Us M Human Communion, And Gives Us To Company, Conversation, And Ourselves.