It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Every tub sits on its bottom.