The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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.
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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