There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.