No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

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.