All we got is the family unbroke.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant