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

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.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

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

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.

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