Isolation breeds conceit.

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.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

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.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.