The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.