A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.