None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.