Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

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.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

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.