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

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

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.