There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as wel….

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imaginati….

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it..

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue..

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help..

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest..

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven..

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it..

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things..

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes wi….

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, whic….

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates..

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it..

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being..

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes..

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault..

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them..

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments..

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that yo….

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one..