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.

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.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

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.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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.