No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; betw…

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bit…

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.