In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.