In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.