Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.