She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.