Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.