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..

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is ….

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him..

Each age has its choice of the death it will die..

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it..

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it..

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world..

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?.