I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.