It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!