The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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.