When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.