The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

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

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

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

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

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.

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.

Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

Tess, will you marry me?" Toby laughed.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.