A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.