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

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.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

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

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

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

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