From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.