There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.