You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.