"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

"In the country of pain we are each alone."

"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."