A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.