Affection is a coal that must be cooled.

Affection is like having a heartboner

Affection blinds reason.

Affection is antithetical to imagination — When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Belonging is necessary for growth. We must all belong to something before we are anything.

Belonging is always also about entering into a common bond of guilt, of guilt and of inevitable compromise.

Belonging is a desire, partly a desire to lose ourselves.

Familiarity is dulling — A thing too much seen is not held dear.

Familiarity is incompatible with esteem — A prophet is not without honor, save in his own countty, and in his own house.

Familiarity is apt to render silence congenial.

Familiarity is a destroyer of beauty — Beauty is all very well at first sight. but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

A Garden is simple to make — you need only a piece of land and eternity.

The Garden is the best place to seek god. You can dig for him there.

A Garden is a thing we cultivate, and it cultivates us.

The Garden is the poor man's apothecary.