the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

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

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.

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

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.