I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.