One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

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

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

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.

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

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.