Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

What do you say to a guy that says a tree's sexy.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

Art should never be popular.