If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...