Charles Dudley Warner

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.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

There is a great pleasure in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.