A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

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.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

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

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.