A poem is no place for an idea.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.