Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.