To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

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

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

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

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.