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

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value