If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.