Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.