The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.