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

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.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

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

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

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.