Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.