It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!