How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

It is your human environment that makes climate

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.