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

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

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

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.