Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

Life begins at eighty.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.