There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

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

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

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

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