I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask. If they don’t believe it, show ’em the map. Some people spend a lifetime juggling with words, with not an idea in a carload. They get what is called in baseball the breaks. The successful don’t work any harder than the failures. I am no believer in this “hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of your opportunities” that these Magazines are so fond of writing some fellow up in. Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction. You got to sorter give and take in this old world. That would also make the preachers financially independent like it has the lawyers. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain’t. I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as it does to get divorced. There ain’t nothing to life but satisfaction. A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him. Villains are getting as thick as college degrees and sometimes on the same fellow. My ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat. A Man only learns by two things, one is reading, and the other is association with smarter people. America is a land of opportunity and don’t ever forget it. You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home. There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact they are pretty near like wars in that respect) nobody ever knows what they are fighting about. My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

They say this is a big rich town