Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe 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.
Charles Dudley WarnerI am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner