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.

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.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

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.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.