A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Do not read the newspapers.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.