The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.