What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! — Charles Dudley Warner

"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."

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

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it."

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

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