When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.