I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Tools have their own integrity.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

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