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

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

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.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.