The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

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

Politics make strange bedfellows.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

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.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.