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.
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.
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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.
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.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
