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.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.