The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.