“Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.”

“Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.”

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”

“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”

“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.”