What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.