No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth

An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be--what they once were, before our ancestors' descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. ("The Striding Place")

There is pride in labor

The labor market is crying for help. The government could write a check from Treasury to every man, woman and child right now for $400. All this bickering about the shape of a dividend tax cut is a distraction from how to get consumers spending right now.

The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.