I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.