There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of 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?

Isolation breeds conceit.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

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.

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