The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many..

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be broug….

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot..

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly..

Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could ….

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One eit….

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more..

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar..

The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, ev….

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a po….

Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directio….

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle..

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-s….

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity..

Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the wo….

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events..

It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was diffic….

So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branc….

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind..

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually..