By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

Once you read, you will be free forever.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.