Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.