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

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.