The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.