People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

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

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in 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?