I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.