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

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

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

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.

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

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.

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