Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.