The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

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

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

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.