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.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

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