The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

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

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

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

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

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.