Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.