The 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.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.