The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

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.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.