There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

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.

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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help

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.