a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

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.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.