though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

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.

Cruelty is the only sin.

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.