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

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.