The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.