No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest