“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience
“Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.