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

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.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

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

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

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.