“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“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.”

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”

“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”

“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”

“Broad acres are a patent of nobility and 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 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.”

“No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”