Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.