To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.