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.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.
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.
Broad acres are a patent of nobility and 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 4000 miles deep an...
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
