It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.
It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time.
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love...We have only one sto...
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to...
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
If then this tendency toward collectivization is a mutation there is no reason to suppose it is for the better. It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And...
I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.
He’s a nice fella, said Slim. Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.
He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among swamp people and fishermen. A...
During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his...
At night frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in...
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?