It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Politics make strange bedfellows.
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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.