A big iron needle stitching the country together.

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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.