Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.