The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

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.

We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

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.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Let your joy scream across the pain.