The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
