Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.