We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

It is defeat which educates us.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.