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

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.