“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. ”

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers”

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”

“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”

“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it ”