You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.