I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.