Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.