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.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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.

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

What you are lies with you. 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, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

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