He just stood and looked at his dying mother, his heart too full for words. - William Faulkner

"I be dog if hit don't look like sometimes that when a fellow sets out to play a joke, hit ain't another fellow he's playing that joke on; hit's a kind of big power laying still somewhere in the dark that he sets out to prank with without knowing hit, and hit all depends on whether that ere power is in the notion to take a joke or not, whether or not hit blows up right in his face, like this one did in mine. ("A Bear Hunt")"

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.