The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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