We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.