The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.