It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.