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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.