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.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

Life begins at eighty.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.