Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.