Trees are your best antiques.

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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.

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.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

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

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

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.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

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 preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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

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

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

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...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the...

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory...

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.