the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

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

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

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.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

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