We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.