Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

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

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.

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.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.