Life Is Strong Stuff, Some Of Us

It Seemed A Strange Thing To Him, When Earth Was Earth And Rain Was Rain, That Scrawny Pines Should Grow In The Scrub, While By Every Branch And Lake And River There Grew Magnolias. Dogs Were The Same Everywhere, And Oxen And Mules And Horses. But Trees Were Different In Different Places.

Life Is Strong Stuff, Some Of Us Can Bear More Of It Than Others.

The Test Of Beauty Is Whether It Can Survive Close Knowledge.

I Do Not Understand How Anyone Can Live Without Some Small Place Of Enchantment To Turn To.

No Case Of Libel By A Negro Against A White Would Even Reach A Southern Court.