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

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

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

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.

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.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?