Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.