The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

The truth is when those Butler Brothers folks turned down my discounting idea, I got a little angry, and maybe that helped me decide to swim upstream on my own.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.