"Only one thing never changes – the human heart. Revolutions and ideologies may lacerate it, even break it, but they c…"

"I never heard them over their juleps express a philosophy of life, and if I had it would have been incomprehensible t…"

"One night Jakie Smith rushed into my room with the sudden illumination: "I know what it is! The law is common sense p…"

"Delta girls are born dancing and never stop, which is as it should be, for surely it is the finest form of human amus…"

"Our woods are not made for walking because the vines and bushes are too rampant and the rattlesnakes too much at home…"

"That short period of my life spent in the line is the only one I remember step by step – as if it moved sub specie ae…"

"Whenever you are just about to decide that Americans are selfish, unpatriotic, and unintelligent, they always prove t…"

"Honor and honesty, compassion and truth are good even if they kill you, for they alone give life its dignity and wort…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"