A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

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.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

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.