A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

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

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.

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.

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