A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.