There is incredible value in being of service to others.
Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.
He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.
O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!
I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.