Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you’re worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in ’im.
Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
I regret all of my books.