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.

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.

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

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.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.