If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

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

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

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