I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.