It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

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

All great and precious things are lonely.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.