A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

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

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

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

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

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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.