I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

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

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.