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

We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius.

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

Discontent, then, arises from absurd notions of equality, from natural conditions of inequality, from false notions of education, and from the very patent fact, in this age, that men have been educated into wants much more rapidly than social conditions have been adjusted, or perhaps ever can be adjusted, to satisfy those wants. Beyond all the actual hardship and suffering, there is an immense mental discontent which has to be reckoned with.