Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.