 Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. |
| Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. |
| No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. |
| People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. |
| Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. |
| A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. |
| What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. |
| The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. |
| 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. |
| It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. |
| There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. |
| Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. |
| 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 thing generally raised on city land is taxes. |
| Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. |
| Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. |
| There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. |
| We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. |
| I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. |
| There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. |
