Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

All great and precious things are lonely.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.