I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.