having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.