And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.