We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.