It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.