"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'"

"I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have come to the conclusion that I am a-thinking a good deal."

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed thems…"

"I have always been of the opinion that the best thing a man can do is to keep his own counsel."

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from December to March, inclusive, she is to be found in the bare ruin of her winter, as truly beautiful as in the full bloom of sum…"