Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

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

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.