There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

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

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

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.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.