When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.