However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.