A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas..

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently..

Isolation breeds conceit..

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman..

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it..

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it..

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well..

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it..

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real..

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous..

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives..

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all..

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing..

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it..

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever..

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting..

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the ….

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely h….

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure..

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you..

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-natu….