Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

When angry, count to a hundred.