What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

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.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.