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

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

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

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

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.