There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

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.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

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

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.