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.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Nature always levies her tribute.

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

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.