The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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 well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Politics make strange bedfellows.