In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.