Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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.

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

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

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Nature always levies her tribute.