Cruelty is the only sin.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

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.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.