I was raised to farm work.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.