Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

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!

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.