Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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.
Politics make strange bedfellows.
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.