He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

If one by one we counted people out