Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

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.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

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

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

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.