That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.