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

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

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. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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

Isolation breeds conceit.