Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don’t square.
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don’t. They don’t care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.