Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

To feel that there is so quick a bound to intercourse, makes us prize the moment, but then also makes it so difficult to use. Yet this one thing I wish to say,…

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most impo…

'If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.'

Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all Neither flower nor fruit, Yielding no root For plant, shrub, or tree.