A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

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

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

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

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

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

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.