Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. |
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. |
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. |
Politics makes strange bedfellows. |
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. |
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 four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. |
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man. |