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

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.

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

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

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

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