The key to happiness is not fixing your problems but changing your attitude towards your problems.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her. Briggs of Turlumme owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumme?-- Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in Frisco?

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

Oft did I wonder why the setting sun Should look upon us with a blushing face: Is't not for shame of what he hath seen done, Whilst in our hemisphere he ran his race?

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.

Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The bird that comes about our doors When autumn winds are sobbing?

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just By Time's slow finger written in the dust.