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

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

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

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

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

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.