No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

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

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.