Francis Hopkinson Smith Quote

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.


The Tides of Barnegat, Chapter XVIII (p. 334), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1906


Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.