Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.