“His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.”
“I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.”
“I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)”
“Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.”
“Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.”
“The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.....”