“A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left long bloody marks wherever they fell.”
“You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk”
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.”
“A philosopher and a social revolutionist, a painter, a singer, a poet, a writer, and a country gentleman, all engaged in sipping honey from life.”