Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The best servant does his work unseen.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.