Willa CatherThinkers

Accomplishment is the ornament of life.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin... a bloody man, vicious... a courses man, vulgar.

Art is a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.

Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration of who one really is. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin... a bloody man, vicious... a coarse man, vulgar.

Happiness is to be dissolved into something completely great.

The Individual is powerful — The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Money is a protection, a cloak... it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

The Sky is the roof of the world.

Spring is when the soil is full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

The Tree is likable, for it seems more resigned to the way it has to live than other things do.