“To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.”

“Happiness is no laughing matter.”

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.”

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”

“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.”

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / th...”

“It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”