Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

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!

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

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