It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory.

Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.