No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.