Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.