The instinct of the people is right.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.