Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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.

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

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

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.