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

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

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.