Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.