Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (29 December 1802)
“If you are not something of a philosopher,—and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,—I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden.”
Source: In Veronica's Garden (1895), p. 92.
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