It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.