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

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

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

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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.

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.

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.