Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!