Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.