Borrowed illusions are better than none.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.