Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree. . . . Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.