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

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

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.