The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
