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

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

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Politics make strange bedfellows.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.