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

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

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

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

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

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.