Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

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.

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.

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.

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.

Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!

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