Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.