Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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.
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.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.