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.

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.

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

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

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

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.