Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.