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 well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

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

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.