The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.