Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

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.

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.