And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

The living need charity more than the dead.

You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.