the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.