Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.