“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

“It's raining like a cow relieving itself.”

“Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.”

“still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.”

“A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”