It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.