If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.