A false vision was better than none.

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'.

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

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.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.