Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.