the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.