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.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

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.

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

Money was their God; work their religion.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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