Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

True friends stab you in the front.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.