Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.