Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

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.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.