Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.