The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

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 is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

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.