It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

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.

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

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.