I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.