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

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.