There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect