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

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

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

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

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