It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

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.

Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

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.