I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

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.

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