These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

Let your joy scream across the pain.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.