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

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Politics make strange bedfellows.