Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.