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

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

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

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

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.

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

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.