It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

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.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

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

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

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