Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
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.
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.