Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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