The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.