Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.