Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

The only way to fail is to quit.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.