Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

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

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.